I survived 1980's recession as a kid, I'm sure I'll survive this

[LadyandGent]

In fairness, my mother couldn't cope with not having potatoes, so heard rice was cheap, which we had religiously.
2 Yellow pack burgers, frozen peas, rice and gravy!!!!

I was very skinny for a few years lol.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer I’m fine thanks. It was a long time ago, and it was wrong place/wrong time (working in a corner shop alone, late at night).

I don't know how many of us who did work on Y2K stuff have told them that the amount of preparation is nothing like the lack of preparation for Brexit. For those of us who did work on it and do know what we are talking about, do any of you remember about shortages of medicines, or slurry pits leaking? Was there a flight of the wealthy e.g. John Redwood making sure their money was elsewhere? Did the car factories bring their annual maintenance shut downs forward. Were the military stockpiling, sorry forward planning, food. I don't remember any of those things.

Oh god just

Thats even worse! Very scary but im glad its long in the past

Glad you're OK just!

One hand cannot clap...

Good luck forging deals with no real power behind it...

What will the U.K. have to offer the global marketplace?

So @LadyandGent you don't even live in the UK. You're Irish. Living in Ireland.

I suspected as much from your 'yellow pack' reference and it's been confirmed by another thread. So what was this thread all about? Were you just pissed and fancied a scrap?

I'm so very sorry your parents didn't give you enough attention as a kid, you attention seeking saddo.

Scandaloso, I live in the UK. Sorry to floor your rant there. But good effort!

'Everyone seems to think that if NI decides they want to be part of the Republic, we'll welcome them home.'

Care to explain?

My parents lost our home and their business in the 80s. I was a child who didn't understand why we were thrown into poverty and the shame of having dinner tickets and not having what other children had. We had to move areas. My whole life's decisions has been based upon it. I'm angry, that although my future is financially secure and my children won't ever know how that feels, their future as adults has been decided on lies and so many choices have been taken away.

Scandaloso. I'm Irish?

And you live in the UK and have never heard of the ERG or WA?

Maybe you were fed a bit too much yellow pack food, babe.

Ok, I get it. Nobody wants to face into poverty. I actually started the thread as a non-serious thread. However, this being where it is, it wasn't taken that way.
Recessions come and go. One of many things I studied at Uni was Economics. We'll come out of this. We'll survive. Hanging on by a thread maybe, but we'll survive.

'Recessions come and go'

Genius

A1, Sharon.

Of course 'people' will survive, we are all able to post on here, because our ancestors through the ages, survived childhood and lived long enough to procreate.

'Leave - most of you will survive'

Stick that on the side of a bus.

Brexiteers have really had to scale down their expectations, haven’t they?
Must be painful.

Recessions come and go. One of many things I studied at Uni was Economics. We'll come out of this. We'll survive. Hanging on by a thread maybe, but we'll survive.

Face.Palm.Words.Fail.

To all those who are concerned about medication/medical shortages imperilling your or your child's life, fear not, because some of us will still survive. That makes it all okay then.

FFS.

Why the fuck should I have to survive something entirely brought on by lies, disaster capitalists and the racist idiotic morons who voted for a fucking unicorn, because their problems would disappear if we just got rid of the foreigners.

Again. Fuck you.

It’s an interesting mentality

Two and a half years ago, they were full of it: taking back control, sovereignty, money for the nhs, brilliant trade deal.

Now they’re: we’ll survive, the Eu won’t let us starve, we’ve had it worse.

Quite the transformation, eh.

Amen, Treacle!

To think that some Cameron decided to put us through this to stop his party fighting makes my blood boil. Quite. And now look at them.

Yeah, what we all need is a bit of economic depression and grinding poverty to show those foreigners that being British is all about. Nobody does stoic in the face of abject adversity like us brits. Bring it on I say. We can all have a sing song round the piano for entertainment. And eat grass. It'll be grand.

It's ok. The government wrote every local authority a letter this week saying they had ring fenced 35 k for each of them for 'Brexit contingency'. And then wrote a second letter saying 'but we haven't decided how you should spend it yet'. It's all under control, clearly well thought out strategies are being put in place...

We'll survive. Hanging on by a thread maybe, but we'll survive.

Bit like the War hey, where people survived, except for those millions who were killed?

You went to uni?? No tuition fees back then otherwise you could have asked for a refund.

Spot on: 2000 years ago the Catuvellauni tribe of southern England lived happily without the EU, Instagram or the BBC.

They didn't even speak English.

So if they could do it then we can do it now.